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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_W._Jenkins_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_W._Jenkins_Jr. Born 1959. 61 years old. A quick search for covid morta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_W._Jenkins_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holman_W._Jenkins_Jr. Born 1959. 61 years old. A quick search for covid mortality by age brings me to https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-people-higher-risk-2020-2?op=1 https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-age-older-... which puts him in the 3.6% mortality bracket. If we assume his parents were in their twenties when they had him, they are in the 80+ bracket, with 14% mortality. As to what we are getting from this shutdown? Does “a major boost to Medicare For All and maybe even basic income to substitute for the fact that the minimum wage has not budged since 2009” count as a thing we get? Probably not, he got his already. Or in summation, ok boomer.

dang 7y ago
You can't post personal attacks to HN, nor generational slurs, nor flamebait in general. We ban accounts that do these things. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in its intended spirit, including right now when stress, fear, and anger are at higher than usual levels, we'd be grateful.
- jqgatsby 7y ago
  There isn't consensus on whether "ok, boomer" is a slur vs a protest or criticism. It seems inappropriate to me to ban accounts for using that phrase.
  - dang 7y ago
    We don't ban accounts only for using that phrase. If someone just said "ok boomer", I'd either not reply or do a "please don't do this here" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22do%20this%20here%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...) In practice, though, accounts that do that kind of thing tend also to do other things. Combining it with personal attack is already an escalation. In any case, it is generational flamebait, which is off topic on HN regardless of generation.

dang 7y ago

You can't post personal attacks to HN, nor generational slurs, nor flamebait in general. We ban accounts that do these things. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in its intended spirit, including right now when stress, fear, and anger are at higher than usual levels, we'd be grateful.

jqgatsby 7y ago
There isn't consensus on whether "ok, boomer" is a slur vs a protest or criticism. It seems inappropriate to me to ban accounts for using that phrase.
- dang 7y ago
  We don't ban accounts only for using that phrase. If someone just said "ok boomer", I'd either not reply or do a "please don't do this here" (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=by%3Adang%20%22do%20this%20here%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...) In practice, though, accounts that do that kind of thing tend also to do other things. Combining it with personal attack is already an escalation. In any case, it is generational flamebait, which is off topic on HN regardless of generation.